Best before Nov 2006 bottle consumed on 5/27/06. Sparkling apple-juice-like pour with a bit of rosy tangerine-peach tints. White head recedes to cover, then ring, with no lacing. Horribly filtered. Apricots, butter, plastic, paper, dry cardboard twirl about wickedly in the nose. Buttery flavor, strangely full of apricot with no beer behind it. Is this apricot flavored water? The beer is pure butter. More butter than I can rememeber tasting in a Shipyard beer (Peak Organic being a possible exception). Pure, stale, understated buttered popcorn. Not even overtly juicy butteriness, but just like a second-hand buttered popcorn Jelly Belly jelly bean. Really nutty and astringent and just overwhelmingly distinct. I hate you Shityard.